imbody
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But the Active Intellect, the creative power,--the power to put these shapes and images in art, to imbody the indefinite, and render perfect, is his alone.
From Hyperion by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have only sketched—sometimes perhaps with too fanciful a pencil, subjects of great importance, which, by being thus rendered popular, may induce abler pens to imbody them in a more permanent form.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
We feel that great events are being enacted; that greater still are in preparation; and we long for an epic, a world-moulding epic, to imbody and depict them.
From Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag by Gustav Freytag
The lineaments are indeed true to nature, but no artist could catch the ever varying expression, or imbody that unrivalled grace, which threw a charm around her, more captivating even than her faultless beauty.
From The Rivals of Acadia An Old Story of the New World by Harriet Vaughan Cheney
Stil hear and we were imbodied for prayers in the morning and then trained a little.
From The Military Journals of Two Private Soldiers, 1758-1775 With Numerous Illustrative Notes by Abraham Tomlinson
The author seems to teach the gentle creed which Coleridge has imbodied in those familiar lines,— "He prayeth well who loveth well Both man, and bird, and beast."
From Violet: A Fairy Story by Caroline Snowden Guild
This is another painful division and shrinkage,— In tears and cries imbodied A female form trembling and pale, Waves before his deathy face.
From William Blake A Study of His Life and Art Work by Irene Langridge
It is true, it is a sarcasm of Voltaire's; but Voltaire, though born a Frenchman, neither imbodied nor was capable of understanding the true French ideal.
From Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands, Volume 2 by Harriet Beecher Stowe
“The troops Collected and imbodied, here we sit Inactive, and from Aulis wish to sail In vain.”
From Myths of Greece and Rome Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art by H. A. (H?l?ne Adeline) Guerber
Whatever some of the Eclectic philosophers might have asserted, Plato considered that our ideas were derived from external objects, and never contemplated the extravagant doctrine of imbodying metaphysical abstractions, or personifying intellectual ideas.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
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